How to format your references using the International Cancer Conference Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Cancer Conference Journal. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Falkowski P (2012) Ocean Science: The power of plankton. Nature 483:S17-20

A journal article with 2 authors

Giessen H, Lippitz M (2010) Physics. Directing light emission from quantum dots. Science 329:910–911

A journal article with 3 authors

Gizon L, Duvall TL, Schou J (2003) Wave-like properties of solar supergranulation. Nature 421:43–44

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Yin J, Gao F, Wei C, Lu Q (2014) Water amount dependence on morphologies and properties of ZnO nanostructures in double-solvent system. Sci Rep 4:3736

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Lastovetsky A (2003) Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Lazaridis G, Campani G, Benveniste A (2016) The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and “Othering.” Palgrave Macmillan UK, London

A chapter in an edited book

Kirchschlaeger PG (2016) To What Extent Should the State Protect Human Beings from Themselves? In: Mathis K, Tor A (eds) Nudging - Possibilities, Limitations and Applications in European Law and Economics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 59–67

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for International Cancer Conference Journal.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Infected Bumblebees Self-Medicate In The Wild. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/infected-bumblebees-self-medicate-wild/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1990) Financial Problems in the Stafford Student Loan Program. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Backfish M (2013) Electron Cloud in Steel Beam Pipe vs Titanium Nitride Coated and Amorphous Carbon Coated Beam Pipes in Fermilab’s Main Injector. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Saslow L (2006) Amid Concerns, Counties Move to Limit Taxes. New York Times 14LI2

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	International Cancer Conference Journal
Abbreviation	Int. Canc. Conf. J.
ISSN (online)	2192-3183
Scope